The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author)
Comic Verse, Urban Vignettes, and the Life Behind the StoriesBy O. Henry
Length7h 38m
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The Complete Poetry of O. Henry, Including a Biography of the Author, presents the lesser-known poetic work of William Sydney Porter alongside an account of the turbulent life that shaped his literary imagination. These poems reveal, in compressed and often playful form, the wit, sentiment, irony, and vernacular energy more commonly associated with his short fiction. Read in the context of turn-of-the-century American popular literature, they illuminate his recurring concern with ordinary people, urban experience, romantic disappointment, and the unexpected reversals of fortune. The volume thus broadens our understanding of an author whose literary reputation has too often been confined to the surprise ending. The accompanying biography situates Porter within the social and professional worlds that informed his writing: the American South of his youth, his work in journalism and banking, his imprisonment for embezzlement, and his subsequent emergence under the pen name O. Henry. These experiences help explain the sympathy, skepticism, and imaginative escape that animate both his poetry and prose, while placing his career within the expanding literary marketplace of the early twentieth century. This volume is recommended to readers interested in American literary history, popular verse, and the relationship between biography and artistic form. It will especially reward admirers of O. Henry's short stories by revealing a more intimate, lyrical, and formally varied dimension of his talent.
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GenrePoetry
Length7 hrs 38 mins
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Publish dateApr 1, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Of Love, Life & Happiness: A Thanksgiving Collection
2The Complete Poetry of O. Henry
3A Contribution
4Chanson De Bohême
5Drop A Tear In This Slot
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6Hard To Forget
7Nothing To Say
8Tamales
9The Lullaby Boy
10The Murderer
11The Old Farm
12The Pewee
13Two Portraits
14Vanity
15Sleeping
16Fancies
17Trusting
18Thoughts
19Thinking
20The Crucible
21Biography of O. Henry
22Chapter One: The Life And The Story
23Chapter Two: Vogue
24Chapter Three: Ancestry
25Chapter Four: Birthplace And Early Years
26Chapter Five: Ranch And City Life In Texas
27Chapter Six: The Shadowed Years
28Chapter Seven: Finding Himself In New York
29Chapter Eight: Favourite Themes
30Chapter Nine: Last Days
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke, Nora A. Smith, Nellie C. King, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Maud Lindsay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Phebe A. Curtiss, Florence M. Kingsley, Olive Thorne Miller, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, François Coppée, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Elbridge S. Brooks, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Anton Chekhov, Armando Palacio Valdés, André Theuriet, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marcel Prévost, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, F. L. Stealey, Kate Upson Clark, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Willis Boyd Allen, Edgar Wallace, Georg Schuster, Harrison S. Morris, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, Vernon Lee, Guy De Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, William Francis Dawson, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Christopher North, Susan Coolidge, Oliver Bell Bunce, Phillips Brooks, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Dinah Maria Mulock, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary Austin, James S. Park, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, C.s. Stone, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, Charles Mackay, Harriet F. Blodgett, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Tudor Jenks, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry Vaughan, Christian Burke, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Meredith Nicholson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, James Selwin Tait, Booth Tarkington, Evaleen Stein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frank Samuel Child, Samuel McChord Crothers, Sarah Orne Jewett, Georgianna M. Bishop, Sarah P. Doughty, John Punnett Peters, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Selma Lagerlof441h 54m$1.99 · $0.00
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